MatthewOutland wrote:
> Politics aside, why do so many people view french society cynically or
> with contempt?  I've never been to France or met any French so I don't
> know whats so special here.   Just curious, that's all.

Vichy.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New
York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White
House."  
 - Columbia University professor Eric Foner in the London Review of
Books, on the attacks of 11 September 2001. A new study has recently
suggested that the inferno that destroyed the World Trade Center and
killed thousands of innocents was indeed more frightening than the
rhetoric of the Bush administration.